Lead UX Designer (Apex Legends)

Founded in 2010 by the original creators of the Call of Duty Franchise, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they'll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. From our roots as an indie studio to joining the expansive roster of studios at Electronic Arts, this remains our guiding principle. We truly love what we do and want to share our passion with players worldwide.

Our shipped titles include critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends, Titanfall, Titanfall 2, Star Wars™ Jedi: Fallen Order and Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. Join us for the opportunity to create groundbreaking games with some of the best developer talent in the industry.

Apex Legends is looking for a creative Lead UX Designer to help shape the future of our game. You’ll manage a team of UX designers, work with stakeholders across the game to shape features, and collaborate with other Experience Design Leads to ensure quality and timeliness of all seasonal features. Your work will be split between effective management of the team, and individual contributions to high level systems and features. You'll work on designing new features and interactive flows from early concepts through to release. While helping manage and grow other UX designers on the team.

If you have experience developing streamlined interaction systems for games, managing a team of UX designers, and you are familiar with the live service model, we are looking for you!

What You'll Do…

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with, and take direction from, the Experience Design Directors and feature stakeholders to take important UX-heavy features from concept to completion on a large project
• Work with other designers and engineers, to understand and determine UX goals for new and evolving features
• Guide the career development of reporting UX Designers, ensuring the team is challenged, growing, and productive.
• Independently design solutions: concepts, wireframes, and prototypes while iterating based on your research, team feedback, and user feedback
• Work with Production to coordinate schedules, and ensure the right designers are on the right tasks
• Create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups to conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors for multiple environments and audiences
• Build rapid prototypes for iterative design, ensuring they make for the best possible player experience
• Document and promote awareness of UX standards, and push to improve UX design workflow processes

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in UX design
• 2+ year of management experience
• Shipped at least 1 game or large-scale non-game project, in a UX design role
• Passion for user-centered design, and a fascination for understanding how users experience a product
• Proficient in user experience design tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe XD, Axure, or Omnigraffle)
• Experience with the User Research Lab process, and understand how to leverage it.
• Understand the importance of documentation and teaching others
• Enjoy creative problem-solving, and value respectful feedback processes
• Broad taste in games

Valuable Additional Skills

• Experience developing UX for AAA games, multiplayer games, live service games or FPS genre
• Deep knowledge of Apex Legends, or other competitors in the AAA Battle Royale space.
• Understand interaction design problems across and input constraints across consoles and PC.
• Degree in Interaction Design, Psychology, Human Factors, Industrial Engineering or related HCI discipline

Next Steps

As part of the application process, we may ask you to complete a practical work exercise. Apply online with a resume that includes a portfolio link.